PLEEEZE can we buy this beige Princess as our Forum share-o-car??? [NO]

[Guest Breadvan72]

MOAR BETTERER pictures on eBay.  Check out that dash!

 

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?campid=5336695108&customid=&toolid=10004&mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.co.uk%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D251426706923

[Guest Breadvan72]

I am actually quite serious about the share-o car-idea.  Joint ownership of toys is common in the boaty and flyey worlds.   The practical probs would need careful discussion but would not be insurmountable.  Years ago when I had more money than sense (nowadays I have less of both), I tried to form a syndicate around an oldish Ferrari, but people bottled.  This level of lunacy conveys lower financial risk, although plenty of scope for swearing and exasperation.  

[anonymous user]

Breadvan you're too keen. My very limited experience of shared cars is that whenever it's your turn there is no fuel in it, plus a random new problem that wasn't there the last time you drove it. Also you have to hope it will actually be in running order and available when you need to use it.

 

A similar experience to buying this Princess on a shared basis could probably be achieved by keeping an old fuel can with some stale petrol in and chipping in towards the odd repair on Vulgalour's car. In return one of us can ring you up every so often to say  sorry you can't use the car this week because someone else needs it.

[drum]

Nice car but £2k?

 

I'd sooner buy shares in the fingerless poo glove company ltd.

 

I'll put £20 in the kitty but you'll have to do better than a two grand princess BV.

[Junkman]

No.

 

All that 'This car was purchased by a Mr Juxtoposition-Wankspot of Sleaford who collected it from Twat & Bagley Austin Rover'  gets right on my tits. So I'm out.

 

Agree.

Furthermore, all that not knowing the difference between to compliment and to complement gets right on my bollocks.

[320touring]

I once shared a car with a mate- we went 50/50 on everything. Whether an xj40 4.0 sovereign was a good plan I'm unaware.

 

We always parked it with a tenner in the glovebox-that way the other person could head straight to the petrol station.

 

 

It worked ok, except things like metric tyres etc cost 1/2 the cost of the car. We were both poor students (but it was good fun car for a 19yr old)

 

 

Also, we only lived about 1.5 miles from each other- I imagine running down to yours to collect a reliable* shiter would skin me the best part of a ton in petrol

[vulgalour]

That one is just about as good as they get, tyre bullshit aside.  If you're going to car share a Princess, make it that red one and the only disappointment will be the people you share it with.

[Guest Breadvan72]

ShinAAAAAY,  and seems well minty, but six pots better? 

 

NB also NOT beige.  

[RedSparrow]

Nice car and all that but I recon it's about £750 worth. Tops. (the beige one I mean).

[320touring]

ShinAAAAAY,  and seems well minty, but six pots better? 

 

NB also NOT beige.  

if you want a 6pot you need an MGC

 

red one is lovely- super shite

[Guest Breadvan72]

Red one recently sold by private seller in Bucks, now with trade seller in Lincs.

 

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C392040

[vulgalour]

If you can afford the fuel, the 6 cylinder is the more refined engine.  If you can't then get the 2.0 litre four cylinder.  The 1.7 is slightly underpowered with a car full of people and stuff but since I'm a lonely old bastard I never have this issue.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Many of you will have concluded that I was drunk when I started this thread, but I wasn't, honest!  Having said that, one of the therapeutic benefits of Autoshite is that it allows you to express your carnal desires for minging old chod, and then calm down.  

 

The idea of a share-o-car amongst friends who are in the same area is one that can work well if you get the right bunch of people, I reckon.  I say this based on having been (back in the day) in two successive light aeroplane syndicates that were successful and harmonious, and those involved larger chunks of money than would joint ownership of a manky old car.  

 

The idea of a Forum Mascot/Badge of Shame car is also appealing, but the practicalities might well (probably would) defeat us.  As for the beigey/sandy Princess, I totally love it, but can see that it is overpriced and may well conceal horrid horrors beneath its shitey looking exterior.    

 

My dad had a 2200 HL in brown, that he thought was the nutz.  I projectile vommed out of the window of it when he was driving me (very hungover) back to university after a vacation or weekend home one day circa 1982/3.    This has naturally given me THE LOVE for Princesses ever since. 

[Cavcraft]

It's never going to work (between a whole forum of people) and is a world apart from shares in a small aeroplane.

[alf892]

ok.........so what plane we gonna get?

[alf892]

although when I have been in a car and the engine stops it has often been funny......not sure it would be the same in a shiteplane

[320touring]

although when I have been in a car and the engine stops it has often been funny......not sure it would be the same in a shiteplane

The good thing is it'd only fail once, and you'd only have to listen to the missus moan once:)

[Lord Sterling]

The idea of sharing a car has been brought up before. It sounds great as an idea but in practice it might not be such a good idea, particularly if there are a lot of people involved. There are going to be many issues surrounding this; Maintanace, storage, insurance, collection/delivery to/from the next 'share holder', who gets thier fair turn when, who pays for what/when, deciding whether someone might need the car due to issues with thier own and whether a 'share holders' situation at the time will allow another car to fit into thier household.

 

It sounds great and if it were to work it would certainly provide an alternative to renting a car plus it provides someone like myself to try some real shite, but it sounds like a world of shit as there are so many issues/laws/possible problems waiting to happen. Personally, I need to start saving for other stuff aswell my getting my own cars back into some sort road-worthy condition, so as such, I'm out.

[rml2345]

I think it would be easier just to sponsor Vulgalour than sharing a Princess between us...

As others have said it's a great idea in theory but there are so many practical obstacles that it becomes a nightmarish thing of nightmares. It would be great to have an Autoshite "Pool" fleet that could be hired out for weekends etc. And administered by one wealthy shitist. If I won the Lottery...

[Guest Breadvan72]

although when I have been in a car and the engine stops it has often been funny......not sure it would be the same in a shiteplane

 

 

Been there, done that, worn the t shirt, seen the movie.  What you then have is a heavy glider, and you look for a field.      The crate flies because it has wings, not because it has an engine, so you check out of the window that the wings have not fallen off, and then plan accordingly; but in an over engineered and therefore heavy British kite like a 1969 Beagley Pup  (for such it was), the glide ratio is a bit arse.    Its big brother the Bulldog is even worse, gliding like the proverbial brick shitehouse.  By contrast, something light, French and lovely like a Cap 10 glides all day and doesn't want to slow down or come down.  

 

In light aviation, relatively few people have new aeroplanes and most of the stuff flying is aero chod of various descriptions, often decades old, running 1950s piston engine technology (magnetos, manual mixture controls, carburetor heaters, low redlines, large displacement for not that much power, heavy fuel use, chuck oil everywhere) although modern plastic fantastics with zizzy noisebat engines and even diesels are on the increase.

[Guest Breadvan72]

PS - I realise that the Forum Car idea in general and the Princess idea in particular are fantastic ideas except for being CACK, but talking nonsense about rubbish is still fun. 

[alf892]

Breadman you ain't convincing me on this one........I have had cars where the wings have fallen off.

 

Lets get a boat....if that stops floating I can at least swim a bit.

 

I can't fly at all

[overrun]

Ideal to be filled with water, ala Top Gear.

[Guest Breadvan72]

"Fly Navy, Sail Army, Drive LANDCRAB."

[vulgalour]

Can we not weld all the holes up in a Princess, stick some wings on top and draw lots to see who has to commute in it week on week?  I think this solves all the problems, except I don't have a pilots license and I don't know if Princesses float.

[Partridge]

So it's agreed, we're all going to chip in for it, then push it in a river to see if it flots?

[rml2345]

So it's agreed, we're all going to chip in for it, then push it in a river to see if it flots?

 

Yup. And if it floats we're going to attach wings to it and see if it flies. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Remember the Golden Rule of life:  "If it flies, floats, or fooks, it's better to rent it".

[Guest Breadvan72]

I know a nice Acclaim you can all chip in for which is a LOT less.

 

 

If the Acclaim has an interior like this one then Plan A.  

 

Get yer kleenex ready, self abuse fans:-

 

 

 

 

 

 

[trigger]

Close, but more brown.